Creatively Thinking With Carolyn B

         Beverley Daniels Part 2 goes deeper into discussing how she has explored and developed her technique as a multi-disciplinary artist. In the last decade she has been focusing on dissecting and combining found objects. Allowing them to share the space almost that can sometimes result in an argument, they are separated until they can sit comfortably together.

         This is the area that Daniels loves to be involved in. It's the energy, the movement, the discussion between the mediums, how they relate, how they speak to each other to say what cannot be said. It becomes more than what it appears, while at the same time remaining quiet. Using the ecological grief as a tool to be something more for the observer.

         Beverley has had a number of exhibitions that explore this dynamic. Using upcycled materials that become intrinsically more than they ever would have when left at the curb. The flyers, ads, and banners, that arrive unbidden at our door almost daily we unthinkingly put in our trash; Beverley uses to weave into contemporary designs that will surprise you. 

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Beverley Daniels/Carolyn Botelho

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Beverley Daniels is a multi-disciplinary Artist that found her passion light up when she finds materials while going about her day in Toronto, Canada. Finding them incidentally, and rather intrusively, she is given these nuanced prints as brightly coloured advertisements; and stumbles onto interesting finds that people put outside their homes to give away. 

Being intrigued to discover and combine these objects into woven and fused plastics, Using materials destined for landfills: ribbons, lawn signs, scrap vinyl upholstery, old film. Cutting, weaving, and gluing or fusing them. This was originally an Ecological anxiety, now Daniels prefers them. In summary Daniels loves garbage.

Dabbling in collages as her medium when she attended Ontario College of Art and Design, now she has been working in multi-disciplinary as her primary medium for the last decade. When she feels the nudge to go in a certain direction she goes there. Feeling deeply satisfied in recognizing the beauty in discarded objects, the plethora is overwhelming, and the unpredictability confounds.

To Connect with Beverley Daniels: https://www.instagram.com/beverleydaniels5/

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Beverley Daniels/Carolyn Botelho

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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This was going to be one of the most exciting times in my life. I had decided this before I even stepped inside the building. I was about to embark on my post-secondary education at a school where the Group of Seven had gone. Those god-like Painters of our glorious nation known as Canada. This is my essay to you, declaring my profound experience of being an Abstract painter and how it led me to become an Artist interviewer. To want to go behind the scenes, undercover, into the inner circle of the imagination.

What really touched me the most about this time in my life, was how much Art really spoke to me; I could feel the tangible living passion these Artists had poured into their artwork.  I was volunteering at the Art Gallery of Ontario on the weekends, and being consumed with Artwork all the time was really exhilarating. There truly was an igniting energy that I could feel. It was in the faculty, the students, the art on the walls, the lectures, everywhere. 

One of the most influential aspects of Picasso’s work for me was his Cubist period. Seeing how he deconstructed forms and reassembled them from multiple perspectives taught me that art doesn't have to mirror reality—it can interpret and transform into unrecognizable shapes and perspectives. In essence, Picasso didn’t just influence how I create; he helped shape why I create. He showed me that art can be a means of personal evolution, emotional expression, and cultural conversation—all at once.

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Having such a curious and inventive mind Libby Hague has been a prolific Toronto based Artist specializing in video and large scale print installations. She has taught printmaking at Sheridan College, and is known for her paper collage and constructed installations; that deal with disaster, hope and the precariousness of consequence. Understanding the resilience and fragility of paper Libby knows this is why it is the perfect medium for expression.

Born in St Thomas Ontario, and growing up in Montreal, Quebec;  Libby has been creating sculptures and stories of contradiction, violence, love, death, disease, and vulnerability. Moving freely amongst these narratives has given her a unique vantage point as a storyteller. From here she remembers as a child how her passion grew with the fragility and strength of paper. Cutting up and pasting characters from magazines and catalogues.

Collecting and navigating her passion for literature Libby shares how her love of reading changed how she saw the world, how her love transcended language and boundaries of relationships and characters. How moving amongst these narratives gave her the opportunity to speak through paper about dialogues she finds in the environment around her. How they may be obscure, but there is a thread of reality running through all of them.

To connect with Libby Hague: http://libbyhague.com/basic.html

Podcast Credits:

Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

*In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a Trojan princess known for her prophetic abilities. She was cursed by the god Apollo so that while her prophecies were always true, no one would ever believe them.

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Having such a curious and inventive mind Libby Hague has been a prolific Toronto based Artist specializing in video and large scale print installations. She has taught printmaking at Sheridan College, and is known for her paper collage and constructed installations; that deal with disaster, hope and the precariousness of consequence. Understanding the resilience and fragility of paper Libby knows this is why it is the perfect medium for expression.

Growing up in St Thomas Ontario  Libby has been creating sculptures and stories of contradiction, violence, love, death, disease, and vulnerability. Moving freely amongst these narratives has given her a unique vantage point as a storyteller. From here she remembers as a child how her passion grew with the fragility and strength of paper. Cutting up and pasting characters from magazines and catalogues.

Collecting and navigating her passion for literature Libby shares how her love of reading changed how she saw the world, how her love transcended language and boundaries of  relationships and characters. How moving amongst these narratives gave her the opportunity to speak through paper about dialogues she finds in the environment around her. How they may be obscure, but there is a thread of reality running through all of them.

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Leaves of Canada is a uniquely original project that documents and celebrates the Canadian landscape using images inspired by Canada's national treasures and botanical wonders. Dilan Doty the Artist that created this genius idea of bringing together knowledge from her degree in Architecture, and her love of nature to share her passion for this awe inspiring space we share. 

Dilan goes on road trips to gather her material, her sketches, and studies of how our world is transforming before us; into beautiful arrangements of complex leaves, rocks, water and trees. They begin to translate for us into a truly calming spiritual space that enriches and enlightens. It is about the experience, the small details, and the emotion that brings Leaves of Canada together. 

Doty understands the power these natural environments hold. From her background in Architecture, to her experience with many design firms; she manipulates these natural places to become simple explorations of our truly glorious nation. It is about how we feel about being Canadian. A place to continually learn, grow, and celebrate our deeply personal originality, where we can stay connected with the natural world around us.

To Connect with Leaves of Canada:

https://www.leavesof.ca/

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Andrea Berger an award winning Canadian landscape and floral painter, has been able to capture some stunning moments across our Southern Ontario landscape. With deep colours, tones and exquisite textures she has discovered the quiet within and loves to share her discoveries.

Challenging herself recently with Plein Air painting and confining herself to 20 minutes has heightened her awareness, piquing her interest, and her attunement with nature and the wonder in everyday spaces. Peeling back the layers to reveal something unexpected. Knowing every journey is unique to each Artist, Berger keeps exploring interiors and cityscapes.

Searching out these hidden and obvious gems around us, Andrea is delighted to share what drives her to push herself creatively in her mediums, her compositions, and what she can leave out to communicate an effective story. Currently following an Artist that is producing fabulous art at 103 - that is part of the wonder and joy.

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As a Korean Canadian Artist Christine Kim lives and works as an Artist and Arts Educator North of Toronto. Drawing her entire life, she crystalizes her digital and analogue modes of operation into intricate gestures. Understanding the stars as narratives, weaved on threads by storytellers throughout the years. Christine traces the lines from these structures, collects these stars; while inventing her own imaginary constellations and narratives in paper portraiture. 

Examining the surface, shape and volume of concealing and revealing the figure; Kim incorporates the interplay of layers and shadows. While the viewer is shown glimpses of calmness, fragility and quiet. Working with watercolour washes, thick paper cutouts, both loose, loud, and meticulous. Kim creates exciting challenging puzzles that need to be solved in her large scale installations.

Join Carolyn Botelho as we discuss Christine's fluid practice, how it blurs the lines of professionalism, and what her paper orbs emerged as one sleepless October evening. What does her teaching art brings to her creativity? How she plays off extremes, what participating in Nuit Blanche is really like? And everything in between her multi-layered unfolding journey of method, relation, and tradition, that is veiled in paper thin constellations. 

Connect With Christine at: https://www.christinekim.ca/

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

(*Mise en place (pronounced "meez-ahn-plahs") is a French term that translates to "everything in its place." It refers to the practice of preparing and organizing all ingredients and equipment before starting to cook.)

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Exploring her Jamaican roots this multi-disciplinary Artist Georgia Fullerton will astound you in all the unique roles she intersects. Inhabiting and traveling through many positions and perspectives as a visual communicator; Georgia is actively encouraging creativity in a wide range of community members. From women's groups, homeless shelters, youth group, to long term care facilities and local school districts. Enhancing creativity, is also part of the healing journey

Being involved in multiple community groups, art therapy, writing, movement, drama - all ways to encourage creativity in community members. Georgia is sensitive to the relationships and emotions that surround and divide our social constructions. Moving within her abstractions into figurative and sometimes portraiture; Georgia is exploring her creative practice as she navigates her local neighborhood, assisting her neighbors in finding their creative energy. Using her skills to encourage and shape the groups she has networked over the years.

Establishing herself in the Durham region as an Expressive Arts Therapist has led to some interesting and serendipitous encounters that have encouraged and enlightened her way of life. Trauma is always within reach, and from this she unearths the awareness of creative change. It is how you interpret, process, and engage with it creatively is the spark Georgia carries with her. She understands the challenges this path has, and greets them with honesty and overwhelming warmth and compassion.   

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Georgia Fullerton: 

https://www.instagram.com/createmyartstory?igsh=eW0wZ2ZvMXZsZWg3&utm_source=qr

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Join Carolyn Botelho in the second part of her interview with Noe Kuremoto. Symbolism and ancient stories from her Japanese background, Noe admits to abandoning when she was younger. Now through her experiences in life she recognizes them as real totems, or talismans to help guide us during life's difficult and challenging moments. 

Creating a life for herself and her family in London, UK. Noe has found the opportunity to build a studio in Lithuania in a national forest. Understanding her roots have mostly been surrounded by urban luxuries. The challenges piqued her interests to focus in on having more family fun, rather then the comparative ideologies floating around in the city core.

Noe shares her creative practice more succinctly to a point where she sees what is slightly askew around her. She feels the cues, translating them into writing, drawing, video, and ultimately clay. Where she communicates how the soul of the city is metaphorically wounded. She offers her sculptures as answers to what may be symbolically missing from our lives.

To connect with Noe Kuremoto: https://www.noekuremoto.com/

Podcast Credits:

Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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